Saturday, June 26, 2010

On the President's job performance, more Americans now disapprove than approve

President Obama's job approval numbers continue to slide. His
refusal to allow foreign countries to help with the BP oil spill is just one factor as polls show a growing number of Americans disapprove of his job performance. Now we have an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that shows more Americans actually do disapprove of his job performance than approve, via MSNBC:

For the first time in the survey, more disapprove of his job performance than approve; for the first time in his presidency, more than 60 percent believe the country is on the wrong track; and as he relieves Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command in Afghanistan, Obama’s scores on being able to handle a crisis and on being decisive have plummeted since last year.